Peltast Timeline

Battle of Thermopylae. 300 Spartans under King Leonidas and other Greek allies hold back the Persians led by Xerxes I for three days but are defeated.

Xerxes' Persian forces are defeated by Greek forces at Plataea effectively ending Persia's imperial ambitions in Greece.

A force of Athenian peltasts defeat Spartan hoplites on Sphaktria in the Peloponnese.

Spartan general Brasidas employs Myrkinian and Chalkidian peltasts to defeat a force of Athenian hoplites at Amphipolis.

Athenian leader Iphikrates employs peltasts to defeat Spartan hoplites at Lechaion near Corinth.